- Nov 07, 2020
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- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are nights when you can feel stale because you've fallen into a pattern by touring too much, but it's easy to get out of it by deliberately getting in trouble and playing yourself into a corner to then see if you can get out of it.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybodies attention in the same place.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was when I found out that you could talk to them and it was a whole other way to blow your stack, and it's so much fun to perform that you want to do it again and the more you get out of it the better.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It depends on the time of the year and who I've been talking to, I try to put people in the studio I like.
- Looks
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.
- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020